Year |
Author(s) |
Short story |
Publisher or publication |
Ref |
1995 |
Karen Attard* | "Harvest Bay" | Eidolon | [6] |
Petrina Smith | "Angel Thing" | Sybylla (She's Fantastical) | [6][14] |
John T. Stolarczyk | "Sail On, Sail On" | Aurealis | [6] |
Kaaron Warren | "The Blue Stream" | Aurealis | [6] |
Andrew Whitmore | "The Other Side of Paradise" | Eidolon | [6] |
1996 |
Russell Blackford* | "The Sword of God" | Penguin (Dream Weavers) | [14][15] |
Isobelle Carmody | "Green Monkey Dreams" | Viking (Green Monkey Dreams) | [14][15] |
Matthew Condon | "Tattoo" | UQP (Original Sin) | [14][15] |
Sara Douglass | "Of Fingers and Foreskins" | Eidolon | [15] |
Tim Richards | "Our Swimmer" | Allen & Unwin (Letters to Francesca) | [14][15] |
1997 |
Lucy Sussex* | "Merlusine" | Roc (The Horns of Elfland) | [14][16] |
Chris Gregory | "Jackie Chan" | Penguin (Twins) | [14][16] |
Le Hang | "The River of Dreams" | Anchor (Influence: Australian Voices) | [14][16] |
Jodie Kewley | "Nicholas Afalling" | Eidolon | [16] |
Janeen Webb | "Death at the Blue Elephant" | HarperCollins (Enter: HQ/Flamingo Short Story Collection) | [14][16] |
1998 |
Stephen Dedman* | "A Walk-On Part in the War" | Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under) | [14][17] |
Kerry Greenwood | "Jetsam" | Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under) | [14][17] |
Sean McMullen | "Queen of Soulmates" | Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under) | [14][17] |
Jane Routley | "To Avalon" | Voyager (Dreaming Down-Under) | [14][17] |
Keith Taylor | "The Bath-house" | Moonstone (Fantastic Worlds) | [14][17] |
1999 |
Trudi Canavan* | "Whispers of the Mist Children" | Aurealis | [18] |
Adam Browne | "Orlando's Third Trance" | HQ Magazine | [18] |
Lisa Jacobson | "The Language of Trees" | HQ Magazine | [18] |
Lucy Sussex | "The Queen of Erewhon" | F&SF | [18] |
Janeen Webb | "Incident on Wolfe Street" | HQ Magazine | [18] |
2000 |
Geoffrey Maloney* | "The World According to Kipling (A Plain Tale from the Hills)" | Aurealis | [19] |
Louise Cusack | "Goddess and the Geek" | Voyager (Mystery, Magic, Voodoo & The Holy Grail) | [14][19] |
Chris Kenworthy | "The Fruits of Habit" | Altair | [19] |
Margo Lanagan | "The Boy Who Didn't Yearn" | Allen & Unwin (White Time) | [14][19] |
Kaaron Warren | "The Left Behind" | Orb | [19] |
2001 |
Sue Isle* | "The Woman of Endor" | Orb | [20] |
Jack Dann | "The Diamond Pit" | Voyager (Jubilee) | [14][20] |
Terry Dowling | "The Lagan Fishers" | Sci Fiction | [20] |
Matthew Farrer | "Tales from the True Desert" | CSFG Publishing (Nor of Human...) | [14][20] |
Kaaron Warren | "The Speaker of Heaven" | Orb | [20] |
2002 |
No award given | — | — | [21] |
2003 |
Lucy Sussex* | "La Sentinelle" | Sandglass Enterprises (Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural) | [14][22] |
Lily Chrywenstrom | "Tireki and the Wind" | Fables and Reflections | [22] |
Marianne de Pierres | "In the Bookshadow" | Dreamhaven Books (Shelf Life: Fantastic Stories Celebrating Bookstores) | [14][22] |
Garth Nix | "Hope Chest" | Penguin Books (Firebirds) | [14][22] |
2004 |
Richard Harland* | "Catabolic Magic" | Aurealis | [23] |
Louise Katz* | "Weavers of the Twilight" | Agog! (Agog! Smashing Stories) | [14][23] |
Lee Battersby | "Tales of Nireym" | Orb | [23] |
K. J. Bishop | "Alsiso" | Elastic Press (The Alsisio Project) | [23][24] |
Paul Haines | "The Gift of Hindsight" | Aurealis | [23] |
2005 |
Richard Harland* | "The Greater Death of Saito Saku" | Agog! (Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales) | [14][25] |
Rosaleen Love* | "Once Giants Roamed the Earth" | Aqueduct Press (The Traveling Tide); Agog! (Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales) | [14][25] |
Adam Browne | "Heart of Saturday Night" | Lenox Avenue Ezine | [14][25] |
Terry Dartnall | "Ones and Zeros" | Neverary | [25] |
Dirk Flinthart | "The Red Priest's Homecoming" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | [25] |
2006 |
Margo Lanagan* | "A Fine Magic" | Eidolon Books (Eidolon I) | [14][26] |
Lee Battersby | "Dark Ages" | Prime Books (Through Soft Air) | [14][26] |
Stephanie Campisi | "Why the Balloon Man Floats Away" | Fantasy Magazine | [26] |
Lucy Sussex | "The Revenant" | Eidolon Books (Eidolon I) | [14][26] |
Anna Tambour | "See Here, See There" | Agog! (Agog! Ripping Reads) | [14][26] |
2007 |
Garth Nix* | "Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again" | Jim Baen's Universe | [27] |
R. J. Astruc | "The Perfume Eater" | Strange Horizons | [27] |
Adam Browne | "An Account of an Experiment by Adam Browne" | Orb | [27] |
Angela Slatter | "The Angel Wood" | Shimmer | [27] |
Cat Sparks | "A Lady of Adestan" | Orb | [27] |
2008 |
Cat Sparks* | "Sammarynda Deep" | Senses Five Press (Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy) | [14][28] |
Thoraiya Dyer | "Night Heron's Curse" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | [28] |
Karen Maric | "The Last Deflowerer" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | [28] |
Angela Slatter | "Dresses, Three" | Shimmer | [28] |
Kim Westwood | "Nightship" | HarperVoyager (Dreaming Again) | [14][28] |
2009 |
Christopher Green* | "Father's Kill" | Beneath Ceaseless Skies | [29] |
Ian McHugh* | "Once a Month, On a Sunday" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine | [29] |
Tansy Rayner Roberts | "Siren Beat" | Twelfth Planet Press (Roadkill/Siren Beat) | [29] |
Angela Slatter | "Words" | The Lifted Brow | [29] |
Lucy Sussex | "Something Better than Death" | Aurealis | [29] |
2010 |
Thoraiya Dyer* (tie) | "Yowie" | Twelfth Planet Press (Sprawl) | [30] |
L. L. Hannett and Angela Slatter* (tie) | "The February Dragon" | Ticonderoga Publications (Scary Kisses) | [30] |
Elizabeth Carroll | "The Duke of Vertumn's Fingerling" | Strange Horizons | [31] |
Andrew McKiernan | "All the Clowns in Clowntown" | Brimstone Press (Macabre: A Journey Through Australia's Darkest Fears) | [31] |
Angela Slatter | "Sister, Sister" | Tartarus Press (Strange Tales III) | [31] |
2011 |
Thoraiya Dyer* | "Fruit of the Pipal Tree" | FableCroft Publishing (After the Rain) | [32] |
Margo Lanagan | "The Proving of Smollett Standforth" | HarperVoyager (Ghosts by Gaslight) | [33] |
Margo Lanagan | "Into the Clouds on High" | Allen & Unwin (Yellowcake) | [33] |
Anthony Panegyres | "Reading Coffee" | Overland | [33] |
D. C. White | "The Dark Night of Anton Weiss" | Ticonderoga Publications (More Scary Kisses) | [33] |
2012 |
Margo Lanagan* | "Bajazzle" | Twelfth Planet Press (Cracklescape) | [34] |
Joanne Anderton | "Sanaa's Army" | Ticonderoga Publications (Bloodstones) | [35] |
Isobelle Carmody | "The Stone Witch" | Random House (Under My Hat) | [35] |
Deborah Kalin | "First They Came" | Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine 55 | [35] |
Margo Lanagan | "The Isles of the Sun" | Twelfth Planet Press (Cracklescape) | [35] |
2013 |
Jay Kristoff* | "The Last Stormdancer" | Thomas Dunne Books | [36][37] |
Tracie McBride | "The Touch of the Taniwha" | Dagan Books (Fish) | [36] |
Ian McHugh | "Cold, Cold War" | Scott H. Andrews (Beneath Ceaseless Skies) | [36] |
Kirstie Olley | "Short Circuit" | Oomph (Oomph: a little super goes a long way) | [36] |
Kim Wilkins | "The Year of Ancient Ghosts" | Ticonderoga Publications (The Year of Ancient Ghosts) | [36] |
2014 |
Angela Slatter* | "St Dymphna's School for Poison Girls" | Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 9, Issue 3 | [38] |
Thoraiya Dyer | "The Oud" | Crossed Genres Publications (Long Hidden) | [39] |
Deborah Kalin | "Teratogen" | Cemetery Dance 71 | [39] |
Charlotte Nash | "The Ghost of Hepaestus" | FableCroft Publishing (Cranky Ladies of History) | [39] |
Angela Slatter | "The Badger Bride" | Tartarus Press (Strange Tales IV) | [39] |
2015 |
Rowena Cory Daniells* | "The Giant's Lady" | Newcon Press (Legends 2) | [40] |
Michelle Goldsmith | "The Jellyfish Collector" | Review of Australian Fiction, Vol. 13, Issue 6 | [41] |
Lisa L. Hannett | "A Shot of Salt Water" | TDM Press (The Dark) | [41] |
D. K. Mok | "Almost Days" | FableCroft Publishing (Insert Title Here) | [41] |
Faith Mudge | "Blueblood" | Ticonderoga Publications (Hear Me Roar) | [41] |
Suzanne J. Willis | "Husk and Sheaf" | SQ Mag 22 | [41] |
2016 |
Thoraiya Dyer* | "Where the Pelican Builds Her Nest" | FableCroft Publishing (In Your Face) | [42][43] |
Tamlyn Dreaver | "Watercress Soup" | Andromeda Spaceways Magazine 65 | [42] |
Jack Nicholls | "Dune Time" | Tor.com | [42] |
Garth Nix | "Penny For a Match, Mister?" | Saga Press (The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales) | [42] |
David Versace | "The Lighthouse at Cape Defeat" | Aurealis 89 | [42] |
Suzanne J. Willis | "The Cartographer's Price" | Mythic Delirium 3.1 | [42] |
2017 |
Tansy Rayner Roberts* | "The Curse is Come Upon Me, Cried" | self-published (Please Look After This Angel & Other Winged Stories) | [44][45] |
Freya Marske | "Hamelin's Graves" | Andromeda Spaceways Magazine 69 | [44] |
Angela Slatter | "The Little Mermaid, in Passing" | Review of Australian Fiction Vol 22 Issue 1 | [44] |
J. Ashley Smith | "Duplicity" | coeur de lion (Dimension6 #11) | [44] |
Marlee Jane Ward | "The Rainmaker Goddess, Hallowed Shaz" | Feminartsy | [44] |
Lili Wilkinson | "Oona Underground" | HarperCollins Publishers (Begin, End, Begin: A #LoveOzYA Anthology) | [44] |
2018 |
J. Ashley Smith* | "The Further Shore" | Bourbon Penn 15 | [46][47] |
Alan Baxter | "Crying Demon" | Grey Matter Press (Suspended in Dusk 2) | [46] |
Juliet Marillier | "Army Men" | Lancelot Schaubert (Of Gods and Globes) | [46] |
Amanda J. Spedding | "Child of the Emptyness" | Grimdark Magazine 17 | [46] |
David Versace | "A Moment's Peace" | CSFG Publishing (A Hand of Knaves) | [46][48] |
Suzanne J. Willis | "Heartwood, Sapwood, Spring" | Ate Bit Bear (Sword and Sonnet) | [46] |
2019 |
Tansy Rayner Roberts | "Dragon By Subscription" | (self-published on Patreon) | [49][50] |
Joanne Anderton | "Loose Stones" | Brio Books (Infinite Threads) | [49] |
Aidan Doyle | "1078 Reasons" | Translunar Travelers Lounge | [49] |
Aiki Flinthart | "Pigshit and Gold" | Dimension6 18 | [49] |
Ephiny Gale Teare | "CurioQueens" | Constellary Tales Magazine 4 | [49] |
Juliet Marillier | "Good Dog, Alice" | Titan Books (Wonderland) | [49] |
2020 |
Louise Pieper |
"Truth Be Told" |
Unnatural Order |
[51][52] |
Nikky Lee |
"The Dead May Dance" |
Midnight Echo 15 |
[51] |
Garth Nix |
"The Case of the Somewhat Mythic Sword" |
Tor.com |
[51] |
J. Z. Ting |
"Terracotta Daughter" |
Coppice & Brake |
[51] |
Suzanne J. Willis |
"A Solace of Shadows" |
Three Crows Magazine #7 |
[51] |